A call came in to Wolverhampton Detective from a woman who had sadly lost her 16 year old son to leukaemia recently. Immediately after his funeral her husband had disappeared leaving her and her young daughter without a word. She had not seen him or heard from him since but she needed to find him as the situation needed clarification and if he was not coming back she really needed to conclude their marriage and set in place the finance.

We sympathised with her predicament and that being left in this horrible situation so soon after her son’s death was making her life almost unbearable. She had not been able to grieve properly. We suggested we could make some enquiries using the information she could give us about her husband and if we were able to locate him we could instigate surveillance on him. After lengthy record checks from our databases we were able to find out that he had a grown up daughter from a previous relationship and he had been staying with her and her family. He had not been turning up at work. Our client asked that we send an investigator to try and speak to him on her behalf. His daughter answered the door to our operative. Her father was unable to speak to anybody at the moment. He was so consumed with grief at the loss of his son he had had a breakdown. He did not want to be around his wife or young daughter or the home where his son had died in his arms. We handed her a letter from our client to be given to him.

Our client was relieved but very hurt. Her husband was now receiving professional help with his grief and has come home.